[ python-Bugs-1193849 ] os.path.expanduser documentation wrt. empty $HOME

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Bugs item #1193849, was opened at 2005-05-02 17:02
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Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Wummel (calvin)
>Assigned to: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Summary: os.path.expanduser documentation wrt. empty $HOME

Initial Comment:
If $HOME is unset, an initial "~" should not be
expanded according to the documentation. But instead it
somehow is expanded, perhaps through the pwd module:

$ env -u HOME python -c "import os.path; print
os.path.expanduser('~/foo')"
/home/calvin/foo

The result should be "~/foo" instead of "/home/calvin/foo".

I suggest adjusting the documentation to state the also
a single "~" is looked up in the pwd module, not only
"~user".

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>Comment By: Reinhold Birkenfeld (birkenfeld)
Date: 2005-06-05 14:29

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Attached a patch which fixes the docs. Okay to checkin?

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